Sky's the limit for Irvine high schoolers as they seek to send a satellite into orbit

Talk about shooting for the moon: The countdown is on for Irvine high school students to build and launch a mini satellite that will orbit Earth a year from now. If successful, the ambitious program dubbed IRVINE01 could mark the first time American high school students put an operational satellite into orbit. And the launch could take place from a site in Russia, giving it an international flavor. Called a CubeSat, the satellite will be about the size of a milk carton cut in half and weigh less than 3 pounds. Plans call for a low orbit at about 350 miles, while students run flight experiments and photograph the moon. More

(Source: OCRegister - Mar 20)